On the Value of a Random Minimum Length Steiner Tree

Consider a complete graph on n vertices with edge weights chosen randomly and independently from an exponential distribution with parameter 1. Fix k vertices and consider the minimum weight Steiner tree which contains these vertices.

By: Bela Bollobas, David P. Gamarnik, Oliver Riordan, Benny Sudakov

Published in: Combinatorica , volume 24, (no 2), pages 187-207 in 2004

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